Null expectations for disease dynamics in shrinking habitat: dilution or amplification?

Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom

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Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control

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Conservation of biodiversity as a strategy for improving human health and well-being

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Dynamics of Vector-Host Interactions in Avian Communities in Four Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Foci in the Northeastern U.S.

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Interspecific Contact and Competition May Affect the Strength and Direction of Disease-Diversity Relationships for Directly Transmitted Microparasites

(2015) Suzanne M. O’Regan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Are All Hosts Created Equal? Partitioning Host Species Contributions to Parasite Persistence in Multihost Communities

(2015) Andy Fenton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Infectious disease transmission and behavioural allometry in wild mammals

(2015) Barbara A. Han et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Association between body size and reservoir competence of mammals bearing Borrelia burgdorferi at an endemic site in the northeastern United States

(2015) Alan G. Barbour et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect

(2015) David J. Civitello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

(2015) Robert M. Ewers et al.   Nature Communications

Existing Infection Facilitates Establishment and Density of Malaria Parasites in Their Mosquito Vector

(2015) Laura C. Pollitt et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

No Observed Effect of Landscape Fragmentation on Pathogen Infection Prevalence in Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in the Northeastern United States

(2015) Christine P. Zolnik et al.   PLoS One

Demonstrating frequency-dependent transmission of sarcoptic mange in red foxes

(2014) E. S. Devenish-Nelson et al.   Biology Letters

Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease?

(2014) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY

The Scaling of Host Density with Richness Affects the Direction, Shape, and Detectability of Diversity-Disease Relationships

(2014) Joseph R. Mihaljevic et al.   PLoS One

Costs and benefits of group living with disease: a case study of pneumonia in bighorn lambs (Ovis canadensis)

(2014) K. R. Manlove et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

(2014) D. P. Tittensor et al.   SCIENCE

Gastrointestinal symbionts of chimpanzees in Cantanhez National Park, guinea-bissau with respect to habitat fragmentation

(2013) Rui M. Sá et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Female elk contacts are neither frequency nor density dependent

(2013) P. C. Cross et al.   ECOLOGY

Does life history mediate changing disease risk when communities disassemble?

(2013) Maxwell B. Joseph et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A meta-analysis suggesting that the relationship between biodiversity and risk of zoonotic pathogen transmission is idiosyncratic

(2013) Daniel J Salkeld et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Life history strategy influences parasite responses to habitat fragmentation

(2013) Götz Froeschke et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbour similar parasite assemblages

(2013) Shan Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect

(2013) Matthew D. Venesky et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence

(2013) C. Lacroix et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Species' Life-History Traits Explain Interspecific Variation in Reservoir Competence: A Possible Mechanism Underlying the Dilution Effect

(2013) Zheng Y. X. Huang et al.   PLoS One

Habitat Fragmentation and Ecological Traits Influence the Prevalence of Avian Blood Parasites in a Tropical Rainforest Landscape

(2013) Susan G. W. Laurance et al.   PLoS One

The Effects of Host Diversity on Vector-Borne Disease: The Conditions under Which Diversity Will Amplify or Dilute the Disease Risk

(2013) Ezer Miller et al.   PLoS One

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Identifying Transmission Cycles at the Human-Animal Interface: The Role of Animal Reservoirs in Maintaining Gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis

(2013) Sebastian Funk et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Hosts or habitats: What drives the spatial distribution of mosquitoes?

(2013) Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena et al.   Ecosphere

The Impact of Community Organization on Vector-Borne Pathogens

(2012) Benjamin Roche et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Wild great apes as sentinels and sources of infectious disease

(2012) S. Calvignac-Spencer et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm

(2012) S. E. RANDOLPH et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Linking community and disease ecology: the impact of biodiversity on pathogen transmission

(2012) B. Roche et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impact of human activities on chimpanzee ground use and parasitism (Pan troglodytes)

(2012) Zinta Zommers et al.   Conservation Letters

Effects of Host Diversity on Infectious Disease

(2011) Richard S. Ostfeld et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Forest species diversity reduces disease risk in a generalist plant pathogen invasion

(2011) Sarah E. Haas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Divide and conquer? Persistence of infectious agents in spatial metapopulations of hosts

(2011) Marieke Jesse et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Biogeographical patterns and co-occurrence of pathogenic infection across island populations of Berthelot’s pipit (Anthus berthelotii)

(2011) Lewis G. Spurgin et al.   OECOLOGIA

A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project

(2011) R. M. Ewers et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tropical amphibian populations experience higher disease risk in natural habitats

(2011) C. G. Becker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Urban habituation, ecological connectivity and epidemic dampening: the emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes (Pteropus spp.)

(2011) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vector host-feeding preferences drive transmission of multi-host pathogens: West Nile virus as a model system

(2011) J. E. Simpson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential

(2010) James Patrick Cronin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

The prevalence of avian Plasmodium is higher in undisturbed tropical forests of Cameroon

(2009) Camille Bonneaud et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Habitat fragmentation and haemoparasites in the common fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis (Phyllostomidae) in a tropical lowland forest in Panamá

(2009) V. M. COTTONTAIL et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Sin Nombre Virus and Rodent Species Diversity: A Test of the Dilution and Amplification Hypotheses

(2009) Christine A. Clay et al.   PLoS One

Host-pathogen time series data in wildlife support a transmission function between density and frequency dependence

(2009) M. J. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

(2009) R. R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological and evolutionary determinants of host species choice in mosquito vectors

(2009) Issa N. Lyimo et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Allometric Scaling and Seasonality in the Epidemics of Wildlife Diseases

(2008) Luca Bolzoni et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Constitutive immune defences correlate with life-history variables in tropical birds

(2008) K. A. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Body-size scaling in an SEI model of wildlife diseases

(2007) Luca Bolzoni et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY